The Latest Breaking News from Peter Murrell

SNP politicians have claimed membership numbers have gone up in some parts of the country – despite a high-profile ongoing police investigation…

JOANNA Cherry has said Peter Murrell is “very lucky” not to have been suspended from the SNP pending the result of the investigation into SNP…

In-fighting, plummeting poll ratings and a humiliating police investigation — each day brings a new scandal for the Scottish National Party. Euan McColm reports on Nicola Sturgeon, Peter Murrell and the unfolding chaos at the heart of Scottish politics

A MEMBER of the SNP’s governing body is threatening to quit if the party does not consider appointing forensic auditors.

Former Scottish cabinet secretary Alex Neil urged Humza Yousaf to bring in forensic accountants to go through the party’s finances.

MICHAEL Russell has moved aside as interim chief executive of the SNP as the hunt for a new permanent holder of the position kicks off ...

First minister reveals firm resigned several months ago but that he did not find out until first NEC meeting as party leader

Bankcrupties, as Ernest Hemingway put it, happen “in two ways — gradually and then suddenly”. That quip captures the tragi-farce playing out in the SNP. The party which rode the high horse of Scottish nationalism as the governing party at Holyrood since 2007 also captured support south of the border.…

Cherry compared the case of the former party chief executive and Nicola Sturgeon's husband to MSP Michelle Thomson, who was suspended in 2015 over a police investigation.